Leptin-dependent neuronal no signaling in the preoptic hypothalamus facilitates reproduction

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2550-2559

  Bellefontaine, Nicole ^a,b   Chachlaki, Konstantina ^a,b   Parkash, Jyoti ^a,b   Vanacker, Charlotte ^a,b   Colledge, William ^c   D'Anglemont De Tassigny, Xavier ^c   Garthwaite, John ^d   Bouret, Sebastien G ^a,b,e   Prevot, Vincent ^a,b  

^a JEAN PIERRE AUBERT RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KISSPEPTINS; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84901924061     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI65928     Document Type: Article

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